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and by the way, the adjoining district, a world i was representing a part of the city because it worked for party advantage. so we allow that to happen. there's a way to get around
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jewish city in the world. and so, you have and the 1940s this gentleman, pager obviously campos who is the great either of puerto rican independence national is some actually is spending the last few years of a suspended jail sentence in new york and new york becomes a node of puerto rican activism for the ensuing decades. and if you want not to taint all of puerto rican independence national his son with the terrorist brush by any means, but if some of you may remember 1975 the bomb that went off from a terrorist bomb that went off at the tavern and lower them in hot that killed actually five people and hurt 53. that was a legacy of a tradition of militant puerto rican nationalists and verging into terrorists and that out of alviso campuses followers became a part and parcel of new york's covert political culture. so all of these ways in which new yorkers this place that is bringing people and, in magnet for people gives it a turbulence and recurrent turmoil that really passes on down through the decades. wor
jewish city in the world. and so, you have and the 1940s this gentleman, pager obviously campos who is the great either of puerto rican independence national is some actually is spending the last few years of a suspended jail sentence in new york and new york becomes a node of puerto rican activism for the ensuing decades. and if you want not to taint all of puerto rican independence national his son with the terrorist brush by any means, but if some of you may remember 1975 the bomb that went...
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life america at theoa turn of the century and the destruction of the city which du was at the time the jewel of th, south.who joi us it was new york city to be ofe a the gulf coast. he meticulously documented thetl stories, the author that strength us here today brings t0 life and human drama and survival of the hurricane thate8 slammed into galveston almost 100 years ago today, actuallyfos 400 years ago coming up on september 8th. the answer given that it is the 100 evers rate coming up, this is a great time for us to look back on the tragedy that unfolded, and the nonfiction yu account of erik larsen. now before i introduce his work and how he went aboutanatmy o researching this nonfiction work, i want to take a few minutes to discuss hurricanes,an the anatomy of hurricanes, howhw we go about tracking ofright afd forecasting and i also want to step back inal time to actually show some footage the was taken right after the damage of the galveston hurricane is actuallyc taken by thoomas edison, who is oneth of the first as we capturd the devastation that occurred id galveston.ualified
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was then one of the debatched city in the world. most new yorkers thought he was crazy or jocking. within three months of the appointment this is how a major newspaper portrayed roosevelt. [laughter] it's almost the premises for a sitcom or at least a dark comedy. harvard educate reformer in to the brothels and gamblings joints, stir slightly with tough irish cop and wait for the explosion. manhattan in the 1890s inspect is time square. still called long ache scare. no traffic lights or stbs. no overnight parking. streets seem wider. they can ride in any direction up and down the streets. thieves stole more horses in new york city than the entire state of texas. [laughter] and they raised to outlaw stables where they painted the horses a different color. i'm telling you, these are chop shops for horses. [laughter] look at the sanitation man in the middle of the street. you don't think about it there were 60,000 horses in new york city. at least thirty pounds of manure per day per house. 1.8 million pounds of manure in new york city.
was then one of the debatched city in the world. most new yorkers thought he was crazy or jocking. within three months of the appointment this is how a major newspaper portrayed roosevelt. [laughter] it's almost the premises for a sitcom or at least a dark comedy. harvard educate reformer in to the brothels and gamblings joints, stir slightly with tough irish cop and wait for the explosion. manhattan in the 1890s inspect is time square. still called long ache scare. no traffic lights or stbs....
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in the buffalo city hall. [applause] show up one and all and let's send a very strong message to the drone any fractures as well as to your government that we don't think that drones in the hands of the police will make us any safer. so a couple of other things being done on the international level i wanted to mention. one is that we are concerned about drones in the hands of the military. at least there are some rules in place about what happens when the military kills innocent people. in the case of the cia, there's no rules in place at all. the cia is not a military agency. it is the civilian agents he by any kind of international law. it is illegal for them having drones and killing people with these drones. so were passing around a sign-up sheet that were going to take him to meet with senator dianne feinstein, who is the head of the intelligence committee and say senator, please do your job. keep drugs out of the hands of the cia. [applause] we have been make in connections with people in pakistan to tel
in the buffalo city hall. [applause] show up one and all and let's send a very strong message to the drone any fractures as well as to your government that we don't think that drones in the hands of the police will make us any safer. so a couple of other things being done on the international level i wanted to mention. one is that we are concerned about drones in the hands of the military. at least there are some rules in place about what happens when the military kills innocent people. in the...
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sex in the city. girls on hbo. so, that wouldn't happen if the reality that is reflected in the fiction and self-shaped. the fiction shapes the reality kind of in turn. and i wish i had time to talk about how things like the courtly love and the wages changed marriage. there's all kinds of marriage history there. but sticking to jane austen. she is a real high point in the history of fiction about marriage, the novel of manners, as they called it. but also in the history of marriage, because -- not only because it took hundred office years to get to the point where women had choices like the choices in pie pride and prejudice." but because after jane austen, even starting in her day, the things started to come unraveled. so she is a high point because it's downhill from there. what caused it to unravel is a whole big group of ideas you can call romanticism or the cult of sensibility or liberation movement. jake austen made fun of this thing in an early work called "love and friendship" which is a satire where every
sex in the city. girls on hbo. so, that wouldn't happen if the reality that is reflected in the fiction and self-shaped. the fiction shapes the reality kind of in turn. and i wish i had time to talk about how things like the courtly love and the wages changed marriage. there's all kinds of marriage history there. but sticking to jane austen. she is a real high point in the history of fiction about marriage, the novel of manners, as they called it. but also in the history of marriage, because --...
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and by the following week it was rum ruled the city. the tenderloin glis wednesday the brilliant evil. the east side wallowed in beer. some joints serve the same over and over again. and a mum fied ham and cheese sandwich. not unreasonably he expected a sane interpretation of hotel and meal and against. he announced the police will be on the lookout for fake hotels but the judges ruled 17 beers and one pretzels equals a meal. [laughter] the republican legislature said really bungled new law and it was turning up to bottoms up and new york became the city that never sleeps. roosevelt hadn't created the on slot -- he certainly had created this but the events especially with the demise of roosevelt subtle play out like a slap in the face. they were drying openly in fake hotels and fake clubs on sundays and also at 3:00 in the morning they were not only drinking, unmarried young women who might never walk blocks were starting to walk or stagger up the convenient barroom stairs. roosevelt for years delighted in describing picnicking with the
and by the following week it was rum ruled the city. the tenderloin glis wednesday the brilliant evil. the east side wallowed in beer. some joints serve the same over and over again. and a mum fied ham and cheese sandwich. not unreasonably he expected a sane interpretation of hotel and meal and against. he announced the police will be on the lookout for fake hotels but the judges ruled 17 beers and one pretzels equals a meal. [laughter] the republican legislature said really bungled new law and...
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people that remain in the city. and one of these three people as a gentle been named my leak it was a member of the black panther party in new orleans. when you talk to him about starting the common ground clinic with these two other people, a doctor and another activist -- excuse me, a nurse and another activist, he says very sweetly the reason he felt like he could do this, he could pull this off and in the face of all this catastrophe all around them is that they have been very similar work in the black panther party. so we have to understand, you know, these two clinics operating today as distinct legacies of the black panther party self activism. >> host: alondra nelson, is there a distrust in the african-american community toward health care, and i hate to healthy, but health care, and nothing specifically of the tuskegee syphilis experiment? >> guest: absolutely. i think it's a particularly important question, because the 48th anniversary of tuskegee is this july. so yes, there is a distrust. we see distrust
people that remain in the city. and one of these three people as a gentle been named my leak it was a member of the black panther party in new orleans. when you talk to him about starting the common ground clinic with these two other people, a doctor and another activist -- excuse me, a nurse and another activist, he says very sweetly the reason he felt like he could do this, he could pull this off and in the face of all this catastrophe all around them is that they have been very similar work...
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south side of the city. we have both grown up in cities where black and white tino neighborhoods are large sections of the city. large parts of the city. a fairly small part of the city. it was perfectly legal to discriminate. homeownership, renting apartments to these things called restrictive racial covenants. that wasn't outlawed until 1948 by the supreme court. the small area of the south side and small parts of the west side man you kept stuffing more and more people into a smaller ary and landlords kept cutting them into smaller apartments and charging people more and more rent for these things. the hickman family found is the frustrating thing. james hickman found a job that wisconsin's seal for the older generation and the room was one of the major steelworks makers in the country. massive plan on the south side chicago that is now gone. he struggled for a year to try to find these for a large family. when he finally found its ended up being at the hands of a man named david coleman who was african-a
south side of the city. we have both grown up in cities where black and white tino neighborhoods are large sections of the city. large parts of the city. a fairly small part of the city. it was perfectly legal to discriminate. homeownership, renting apartments to these things called restrictive racial covenants. that wasn't outlawed until 1948 by the supreme court. the small area of the south side and small parts of the west side man you kept stuffing more and more people into a smaller ary and...
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the dome light in the city and is now. a thin light -- a thin line of light seeps through the crack at the bottom of the front door. so that the clumps at an early point in the narrative in the book when we are adjusting to life in this village in new mexico in the espinola valley. which if you are driving between santa fe and taos, if you drive from santa fe to taoist to visit taos pueblo or see the turtle dance on new year's day at san juan pueblo, the pueblo switched back to the language name, while we were living there as a matter of fact, which bears to the fact that the conquest of the resistance to it is still very much ongoing and northern new mexico in many other places. if you are going on the road from santa fe to taoist, you're going to go right through velarde and you're not in aca. the highway is set above the village. you'll catch maybe a couple 10 rooftops of the adobes and if you do, you'll think a quaint northern new mexican adobe village, the very picture of new mexican pastoral, you know, you could rend
the dome light in the city and is now. a thin light -- a thin line of light seeps through the crack at the bottom of the front door. so that the clumps at an early point in the narrative in the book when we are adjusting to life in this village in new mexico in the espinola valley. which if you are driving between santa fe and taos, if you drive from santa fe to taoist to visit taos pueblo or see the turtle dance on new year's day at san juan pueblo, the pueblo switched back to the language...
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and by the way, the adjoining district, a world i was representing a part of the city because it worked for party advantage. so we allow that to happen. there's a way to get around that, too. there's other kinds of things we can get into about money. a story in "the new york times" is completely wrong, that was about the fact the super packs an office staff stuff for parties out of the way. and they were now doing the funding of parties not relevant. nonsense. did you ever looked to see his run in the packs? is for party leaders. i'm the democrat and republican side is just another tool that the parties are able to use. let me skip over that. let me go to what happens when you are in congress. a former congressman here who's lived through it, just as i have. so here's the deal. there is a coup by a moment. you weigh in and you sworn in and you're standing there in my particular class. there i am with al gore, a part apart, dan quayle altogether, all equal, all members of the united states congress last for about 30 seconds. as soon as you're done, what happens is you vote on who will be
and by the way, the adjoining district, a world i was representing a part of the city because it worked for party advantage. so we allow that to happen. there's a way to get around that, too. there's other kinds of things we can get into about money. a story in "the new york times" is completely wrong, that was about the fact the super packs an office staff stuff for parties out of the way. and they were now doing the funding of parties not relevant. nonsense. did you ever looked to...
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and destroys the city. it is quite a shocking event. it has been totally forgotten history of washington. when asked people about this, one reason i have asked us if you have ever heard about the right in 1837 and i have never met anybody who has. it is completely forgotten. but when he read the newspapers to me realize what a shocking event at once. was the worst thing that happened in washington that the british have invaded 20 years before in 1814. they came in and destroyed the white house and the labor congress and all that. this was comparable damage, but it did not get inflicted by american army. it was why americans themselves. a lot of her termination. a lot of shame like how could this happen. francis scott key is determined to pursue the agenda of the they want to make sure that the slaveowners are safe in washington. they are not going test laser runway. and so he, his district attorney, has the job of establishing law and order. he does this in a couple of ways. the first thing that he does as
and destroys the city. it is quite a shocking event. it has been totally forgotten history of washington. when asked people about this, one reason i have asked us if you have ever heard about the right in 1837 and i have never met anybody who has. it is completely forgotten. but when he read the newspapers to me realize what a shocking event at once. was the worst thing that happened in washington that the british have invaded 20 years before in 1814. they came in and destroyed the white house...
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that lasted for about 30 seconds in and the cities are done. what happens is you start voting on who will be the speaker and what committees will have how many of this party or that party. you divide along party lines. another embarrassing moment -- how many of you have been to the house floor or have observed the hustler? >> i am speaking to you. some of you are over here, here is another person over here. but there is a lectern. i can barely see it, but there is one lectern for me to talk to all of you. i thought, they are going to hear me and i'm going to stand there and there was this gasp. it's like you were going to get cooties if you touched the wrong lectern. what you have is that you speak at supper luck turns, you look at separate computers to look stuff up. and if i wanted to go get a cup of soup order the things you do -- republicans go to one cloakroom and you can't even have soup together. we created that system. there are ways to fix this. what we have created is a system where people don't know each other as friends and colleagu
that lasted for about 30 seconds in and the cities are done. what happens is you start voting on who will be the speaker and what committees will have how many of this party or that party. you divide along party lines. another embarrassing moment -- how many of you have been to the house floor or have observed the hustler? >> i am speaking to you. some of you are over here, here is another person over here. but there is a lectern. i can barely see it, but there is one lectern for me to...
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sets and the city, girls on hbo, the reality, if it was reflected in the fiction, it is also shaping the reality in turn. the fiction shapes the reality. i wish i had time to talk about the courtly aspect of the relationship. but just sticking to jane austen, she is a high point in the fiction about marriage. the novel of manners. in the history of marriage, not only because it took hundreds of years to get to the point where women have choices with the choices in pride and prejudice, but because after jane austen, even starting in her day, things started to come unraveled. it is a high point because she is downhill from there. what causes it to unravel is a whole big collection of ideas were a lot of liberationist movements. jane austen made fun of this sort of thing in her early work called love and friendship, which is a satire where everybody finds stuff like happiness seems very boring to them. authenticity, liberation, intense experiences, basically they go around expecting love to strike someone claiming. and then not unnaturally come to kind of wake up to find that their live
sets and the city, girls on hbo, the reality, if it was reflected in the fiction, it is also shaping the reality in turn. the fiction shapes the reality. i wish i had time to talk about the courtly aspect of the relationship. but just sticking to jane austen, she is a high point in the fiction about marriage. the novel of manners. in the history of marriage, not only because it took hundreds of years to get to the point where women have choices with the choices in pride and prejudice, but...
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up under the most difficult circumstances with the dignity that is unmatched in the city in any of the great cities in this country. it is almost as though it is a nobility of humanity, simply because of the dignity of the negatives put in their way and the harshness of life. and as i say in my book, and i mean it, my grandfather still reigns as the greatest person i know of or know about. you tell me a person who could have accepted and not have a father, but as a mother. as he said, and it from pillar to post his grandmother and uncle and no education and yet segregation, jim crow law, rose above it and insisted that his grandsons rose above it. fight, participate, eliminate the wrong, but not be consumed by or destroyed by. and i don't think you could get much greater than that. >> you and i are huge lincoln fans. do you think at all in the culture that link and so to? in so many ways are so much talked about the founding fathers committee said house divided speech. that house phone away because of contradiction. and lincoln's generation rebuilds it. delete it that claim to be the g
up under the most difficult circumstances with the dignity that is unmatched in the city in any of the great cities in this country. it is almost as though it is a nobility of humanity, simply because of the dignity of the negatives put in their way and the harshness of life. and as i say in my book, and i mean it, my grandfather still reigns as the greatest person i know of or know about. you tell me a person who could have accepted and not have a father, but as a mother. as he said, and it...
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he heavenned horses to the city's -- he served horses to the city's taxi trade. there were two brothers, thomas and isaac kerry, they owned a couple of barbershops on pennsylvania avenue. they came from a free black family in virginia that had been free for generations. in fact, one of those black families had opened slaves themselves. the kerry brothers, also, while they were cutting hair, would also sell anti-slavery publications on the sly, on the side. and the hero of the book, beverly snow, was -- ran the city's finest restaurant called the epicurean eating house. he's really the hero of the book. i think of him as a barack obama, slightly ahead of him time, a very clever and intelligent mixed-race man who comes out of nowhere to conquer and charm washington, serve the washington elite what they want only to face a tremendous backlash. and i think if you read the book, you'll see some parallels to our own time there. anyway, the point is that in this book far from slavery being dominant in washington, d.c. and all-oppressive force, slavery's actually recedin
he heavenned horses to the city's -- he served horses to the city's taxi trade. there were two brothers, thomas and isaac kerry, they owned a couple of barbershops on pennsylvania avenue. they came from a free black family in virginia that had been free for generations. in fact, one of those black families had opened slaves themselves. the kerry brothers, also, while they were cutting hair, would also sell anti-slavery publications on the sly, on the side. and the hero of the book, beverly...
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part of the city, a city that is notorious and perhaps the segregated big city in the united states. that is what the commission called in 1959 and still was true to different degrees in the late 80s when obama got there. hyde park was the pocket of integration. so he was comfortable there. and you spend every day going to the southside, which was 99% african-american, a sprawling, oblique breech area coverage in terms of personality, which is what he really felt at home for the first time in his life. he was embraced by a group of older black women who sort of took him under his wing and one can and just created a sense for him that he never felt before. but it was incredibly frustrating. community organizing that is 95% of the time and keep banging your head trying to get change done. so during that period, he became a community organizer largely out of his mother's sensibility. you know, she didn't organizing of a different sort trying to help poor women, artisans survive in a male-dominated culture. you know, her beliefs were transferred to him. that's why he did it. but his moth
part of the city, a city that is notorious and perhaps the segregated big city in the united states. that is what the commission called in 1959 and still was true to different degrees in the late 80s when obama got there. hyde park was the pocket of integration. so he was comfortable there. and you spend every day going to the southside, which was 99% african-american, a sprawling, oblique breech area coverage in terms of personality, which is what he really felt at home for the first time in...
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so i'm proud of the city. i think it's a laboratory for the new, a laboratory for new ideas for medical marijuana to gay marriage, two immigrant sanctuary, a lovable, you know, minimum wage, universal health care, which is something that her smith in free clinic popularized. health care is a right, not a privilege. all of these values find out your person same cisco and on the rest of the country to the horror of fox news is grappling with them. so i say right on, san francisco. [applause] >> i want to give an anecdote to your comments. [inaudible] to go back east to broaden my horizons of a chinese girl. i thought it was one of the arpa said the united states actually. but he ended up with my first job in richmond, virginia and my landlady, lambert to be, their last name was the, so we called them the grandfather of the neighborhood. they had never met in asian before. in fact, one week and they invited whole family to come see an asian. and one of the relatives is disappointed because i was not worried one o
so i'm proud of the city. i think it's a laboratory for the new, a laboratory for new ideas for medical marijuana to gay marriage, two immigrant sanctuary, a lovable, you know, minimum wage, universal health care, which is something that her smith in free clinic popularized. health care is a right, not a privilege. all of these values find out your person same cisco and on the rest of the country to the horror of fox news is grappling with them. so i say right on, san francisco. [applause]...
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the largest jew city in the world. and so you have in the 1940, the gentleman who is the great father of portiÈre portiÈre began is spending the last years of suspended jail sentence in new york and new york becomes a mode of puerto rican activism. if you want not to taint all of the puerto rican independents nationalism, with the terrorist brush by any means if you remember in 1875 the terrorist bomb that went off at the tay vern in lower manhattan that killed actually five people and hurt 53, that was the legacy of militant puerto rican nationalism searching at the terrorism that out of the followers became a parcel of new york's sort of covert political culture. so all of these ways in which new york is this place that is bringing people in. that is a mecca for people, give it is a turbulence and a recurrent turmoil that casts on down through the decades. world war i 1914, we have to remember that when the great war world world war i began in europe in the summer of 1914, the u.s. didn't join the war until 1917. s
the largest jew city in the world. and so you have in the 1940, the gentleman who is the great father of portiÈre portiÈre began is spending the last years of suspended jail sentence in new york and new york becomes a mode of puerto rican activism. if you want not to taint all of the puerto rican independents nationalism, with the terrorist brush by any means if you remember in 1875 the terrorist bomb that went off at the tay vern in lower manhattan that killed actually five people and hurt...
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city of order, opposed the ready, but to have avenues by which we can spread the message more effectively. >> you read about natural law in this book. >> natural law is an easy turn to use to people who are not religious, who believe in the ability to be free of any course of restraint some other people that are redstone come from government, they come from our any humanity to reassess latter-day saints we believe that god exists, has given us these rights. we derive them from him. if you talk to an atheist, agnostic, someone who may be -- some natural law is a different definition of the same underlying principle, and that is our rights come from us and not from government. whether we receive this race because of our any humanity in the fact a real human beings or because we are god's children, the precedent being, how those rights came to us but not so much important in terms of what government should do as is the fact that government has not given us those rights, we have delegated to government certain powers. it is a great way to kind of unified people around the message of liberty w
city of order, opposed the ready, but to have avenues by which we can spread the message more effectively. >> you read about natural law in this book. >> natural law is an easy turn to use to people who are not religious, who believe in the ability to be free of any course of restraint some other people that are redstone come from government, they come from our any humanity to reassess latter-day saints we believe that god exists, has given us these rights. we derive them from him....
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be the district attorney for the city of washington. and what he did in that time, i wouldn't say it was as smith in as root and the star spangled banner which was obviously an enduring feet, but it was very important to. an unknown factor of francis scott key is that his best friend and brother-in-law of was a man named roger carney. and he was very politically ambitious. with his help he ascended to jobs and the administration of andrew jackson. first key helped carney become u.s. attorney general. then in 1836 the chief justice of the supreme court went on to write the dress that decision in 1857 which effectively legalized slavery and hastened the coming of the civil war. they were inseparable political figures and employ an important in the way it has been so forgotten. there is a key bridge which crosses the potomac river. recovery is, a park where he used to live. and in the park there are lots of exhibits that are devoted to him. it is one that says active in anti slavery causes. this is five wrong. it would be much more accurat
be the district attorney for the city of washington. and what he did in that time, i wouldn't say it was as smith in as root and the star spangled banner which was obviously an enduring feet, but it was very important to. an unknown factor of francis scott key is that his best friend and brother-in-law of was a man named roger carney. and he was very politically ambitious. with his help he ascended to jobs and the administration of andrew jackson. first key helped carney become u.s. attorney...
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the reason why is the same reason they love to live in the city and not the suburbs. they don't have kids often times. the suburbs were created around a single organizing to make life easy for your families. drive around and count the minivans. liberals hate those. why do people drive them? because nay work. it's easy. then they can make it easy to haul the kids to the soccer practice, and the mall, and they are safe. the suburbs were designed to be functional as the minivan. we have crumby chain restaurant. you can take three kids there for dinner and not get ugly looks and not go broke. why strip malls? we have to pick up extra stuff, a new backpack without losing an entire weekend. we have a dance receipted l. there's laundry, church, and if we work really hard and superefficient we might get to watch a half of a football game later in the afternoon in the remembering rooms or the man a caves. television not pretty or sophisticates. that's what suburban life is. people move to the suburbs to have families. we stop checking in to fore square. we don't spend time wit
the reason why is the same reason they love to live in the city and not the suburbs. they don't have kids often times. the suburbs were created around a single organizing to make life easy for your families. drive around and count the minivans. liberals hate those. why do people drive them? because nay work. it's easy. then they can make it easy to haul the kids to the soccer practice, and the mall, and they are safe. the suburbs were designed to be functional as the minivan. we have crumby...
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such an institution to the city and the pleasure to be here. thank you for coming out on an august evening to hear me. i will try to be brief in my comments and i have more of an exchange of ideas and your perspective so i can have a conversation about manufacturing and what the country should do to be competitive. the idea for the book came about when i was traveling around the country and i would see a successful manufacturer making lenders, making steel, making meat and food and i would say i thought our manufacturing had gone off shore. something didn't make sense. i started to wonder what were people missing in the story and it turns out that while a lot of consumer manufacturing has gone off shore or if you go into a store, the toys and apparel, a lot of that has left america, we are still a world leader when it comes to complex advanced manufacturing. we make almost 80% of steel here, we make a tremendous amount of planes here and we are neck-and-neck in manufacturing with china. that is a staggering statistic. we make 20% of the world's
such an institution to the city and the pleasure to be here. thank you for coming out on an august evening to hear me. i will try to be brief in my comments and i have more of an exchange of ideas and your perspective so i can have a conversation about manufacturing and what the country should do to be competitive. the idea for the book came about when i was traveling around the country and i would see a successful manufacturer making lenders, making steel, making meat and food and i would say...
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sister city of the rue wan did. i have great hope, i have great hope that we can build this if people stay vigilant and committed. the bottom line we are part of the media now. all of the twitter and facebooks and all of our blogs and internets -- how do you like that? i liked that. collectively and you never know who is actually really reading these things and getting them. when we choose the frames, that forward what we would like to see in the world, and we correct the factual misinformation, and we share what we know to be true, and we start to see a change gradually. as it builds, the more traditionally immediate why, and we share the other way around too. so thank you so much. i'll take a question or two. [applause] [applause] i'll just take one. dr. apple ton? >> thanks. i have a question of you mention earlier that in rwanda there was a set of -- clipping of the frame the process by which the frame one frame becomes a dominant frame, how much do you think that individual such as hitler or an individual perso
sister city of the rue wan did. i have great hope, i have great hope that we can build this if people stay vigilant and committed. the bottom line we are part of the media now. all of the twitter and facebooks and all of our blogs and internets -- how do you like that? i liked that. collectively and you never know who is actually really reading these things and getting them. when we choose the frames, that forward what we would like to see in the world, and we correct the factual...
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city, um, wanted to dissociate itself from the rabid, racist image of the rest of the state, and that helped them to negotiate this quietly. so, yeah. from the beginning i have memories of -- so my participants were civil -- parents were civil rights activists, and after the civil rights act passes and the voting rights, then they turned to politics. i grew up licking ndpa stamps, that was the party, the national democratic party -- i have memories, my father ran for governor against george wallace in 1970, and i just have these memories of my summers being taken all around the state, particularly the black belt of the state, those counties that were the center of the plantation economy during the antibell lumbar era, not surprisingly 100 years later where all the black votes were. and it felt like particularly during that election in 1970, it felt like i had been carried to every black church in the black belt, you know? and i watched my father give this stump speech over and over and over again invoking frederick douglass, that famous line those who profess to deprecate agitation ar
city, um, wanted to dissociate itself from the rabid, racist image of the rest of the state, and that helped them to negotiate this quietly. so, yeah. from the beginning i have memories of -- so my participants were civil -- parents were civil rights activists, and after the civil rights act passes and the voting rights, then they turned to politics. i grew up licking ndpa stamps, that was the party, the national democratic party -- i have memories, my father ran for governor against george...
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you may not know at that back in the 1940s, the city council of new york city, our biggest city, had elections based on proportional representation. so you would get a seat in the city council of new york if you got x% of the vote i would will give you a seat and so one which is how the following happened. a man named ben davis, benjamin davis, won the seat on the city council of new york. i remember the year in the late 1940s and you might be interested in two aspects of benjamin davis, city councilmember. he was black. he was an african-american and he was an enthusiastic public leader of the united states communist party and he was elected because of proportional representation. shortly after that proportional representation was ended and never returned to new york city but we have had it. greece has it in most european countries have it. sarita got three percentage points less than the new democracy. the new democracy came first and they had 27, 20% in cerese that came in with 24, 25 or something like that i'm a very close but under greek law, whatever party comes in first gets n
you may not know at that back in the 1940s, the city council of new york city, our biggest city, had elections based on proportional representation. so you would get a seat in the city council of new york if you got x% of the vote i would will give you a seat and so one which is how the following happened. a man named ben davis, benjamin davis, won the seat on the city council of new york. i remember the year in the late 1940s and you might be interested in two aspects of benjamin davis, city...
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a when we arrived in the desert and they were fleeing justification in the city. and we wind up the desert because of all the ways was not in the desert also in the boom years decided to pick up in the boom years decided to pick up in the boom years decided to pick up in the boom years decided to pick up for places to go and s. falling guys created by what? the justification model. the justification more follows paradise. its representation and i think i mentioned a little bit ago the unholy alliance unrealistic speculations. the effect of this is to distort obscure, in a violent way, native populations have been there long time and alternately displays them. so is a representational displacement, you know, if it is a goal, but will displacement. ultimately, my crew -- we were the rant, but after we arrived, the real money porting. injuries to tell, anybody? art in america levels, you know, artists. and when she arrived, then joni mitchell is looking for a place and bob dylan's people as scatting. i mean, it was a tornado, a whirlwind of speculation, driving up to
a when we arrived in the desert and they were fleeing justification in the city. and we wind up the desert because of all the ways was not in the desert also in the boom years decided to pick up in the boom years decided to pick up in the boom years decided to pick up in the boom years decided to pick up for places to go and s. falling guys created by what? the justification model. the justification more follows paradise. its representation and i think i mentioned a little bit ago the unholy...
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the rampage and destroyed the city. it is quite a shocking event. it has totally been forgotten in the history of washington. i asked people if they had ever heard of the ride in 1835 in washington and i never met anyone who had. when you read the newspapers from you realize what a shocking event it was. it was the worst thing that had happened in washington since the british had invaded 20 years before in 1814. then he came in and destroy the white house and the library of congress and all that. this was comparable damage but have not been inflicted in that way for there was a lot of shame and remorse about how could this happen, a lot of re-examination. francis scott key was determined to pursue the agenda of the jackson administration, which is to make sure that the slave -- the slaves are going to run away, and so is district attorney, he has the job of establishing law and order. he does this in a couple of ways. the first thing that he does as he puts arthur bowen on trial for the attempted murder of mrs. thorton.
the rampage and destroyed the city. it is quite a shocking event. it has totally been forgotten in the history of washington. i asked people if they had ever heard of the ride in 1835 in washington and i never met anyone who had. when you read the newspapers from you realize what a shocking event it was. it was the worst thing that had happened in washington since the british had invaded 20 years before in 1814. then he came in and destroy the white house and the library of congress and all...
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he got a job in the city of new york's welfare department. and witnessed first-hand the immense suffering of his neighbors. and he also started writing. he started doing music and theater reviews for the amsterdam news in harlem and he parlayed that eventually into a regular column that covered all aspects of harlem life, including, and especially, politics. harlem during those years was a sort of political hothouse. ottley was quickly sucked into the rough-and-tumble of the political life better. he was an active participant in the amsterdam news strike in 1935. he became very much engaged in labor issues in the 1930s. he covered the controversies surrounding the italian invasion of ethiopia. he participated in the congress. like so many americans that were taken ottley was radicalized but not a radical. he was asked to characterize his politics recently. and he reminds me of jackie robinson. he was a republican in the 50s. he did not confide the utopianism of left-wing politics. at the same time, circumstances dictated that he would be in c
he got a job in the city of new york's welfare department. and witnessed first-hand the immense suffering of his neighbors. and he also started writing. he started doing music and theater reviews for the amsterdam news in harlem and he parlayed that eventually into a regular column that covered all aspects of harlem life, including, and especially, politics. harlem during those years was a sort of political hothouse. ottley was quickly sucked into the rough-and-tumble of the political life...
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this is about 15 minutes. >> the agitators daughter is the name of the book and sheryll cashin city author and she is a professor of law at georgetown university. professor subbyte who is the agitator? >> my dad, dr. john cashin jr., who just passed this last year. >> what kind of an agitator was he? >> well, my dad founded an independent democratic party in alabama at a time when the regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace, the dixiecrat and despite he was two-time valedictorian, his ab mentation was -- and this was in the 60's mind you, and early 70's into his political party, so that alabamians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace and the hundreds of thousands of newly registered by voters would have people to vote for. not just vote but run for office and so that was his life's work and he was very much committed to read capturing the greatness of african-americans in terms of the political participation and very steeped in the arab reconstruction. his grandfather had been a reconstruction legislator and he grew up hearing about his grandfather, gra
this is about 15 minutes. >> the agitators daughter is the name of the book and sheryll cashin city author and she is a professor of law at georgetown university. professor subbyte who is the agitator? >> my dad, dr. john cashin jr., who just passed this last year. >> what kind of an agitator was he? >> well, my dad founded an independent democratic party in alabama at a time when the regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace, the dixiecrat and despite he...
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domestic terrorism trials that started in the city. >> on august 6, 2002, the three men who had known each other for a couple of years at the local mosque got together. they basically went out for coffee at the caribou cafe coffee house. it was ten months affiliate after the war in afghanistan had begun, at the time there was a lot of reports about the civilian casualties in that war. these three were upset about that. and they just started talking about sort what they could do to enact revenge or if they could do something about this and send a message, what would they do? they threw out an idea about the hoover dam, and christopher paul, who was with them, thought it was a good idea but maybe there was something else. and then the third man, who was a smol began immigrant to columbus, he said what he thought would be a good thing to do is shoot up a shopping mall. maybe that would sent the right kind of message. the meeting, which was kind of a casual meeting, again, they were just sort of tossing out ideas. it became extremely significant to the three cases. the following year, inv
domestic terrorism trials that started in the city. >> on august 6, 2002, the three men who had known each other for a couple of years at the local mosque got together. they basically went out for coffee at the caribou cafe coffee house. it was ten months affiliate after the war in afghanistan had begun, at the time there was a lot of reports about the civilian casualties in that war. these three were upset about that. and they just started talking about sort what they could do to enact...
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the city. and i was well cared for. you have to take some precautions but you have to think about where you're going to spend the night if you're a foreigner. you have to think about where you're going to go in the city because in many places it's a dangerous city and there are eruptions of violence as they were just on friday. you have to get some serious thought to this but in the end i found in the city and in many other area, more or less dangerous places in the world, the way to go about it is simply to go and to do your business and to talk to people and to go away again. you discover that the overwhelmingly majority, overwhelming majority of people are good people, and even many who are not will at least be courteous. >> something you address in trenton is the term suicide bomber. what does that mean to you? >> suicide bomber, in some cases you discover that it's not a suicide bomber at all. the incident at the center of my book appeared to be a suicide bombing at first. later turned out
the city. and i was well cared for. you have to take some precautions but you have to think about where you're going to spend the night if you're a foreigner. you have to think about where you're going to go in the city because in many places it's a dangerous city and there are eruptions of violence as they were just on friday. you have to get some serious thought to this but in the end i found in the city and in many other area, more or less dangerous places in the world, the way to go about...
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in the legislature, and also in the city trying to pass public policy that i thought was really in the public interest, and it was so hard. and it was so hard partly because most people didn't understand what we were even doing. didn't know when we were doing. i see my fellow commissioner joyce here, and she was with me through part of this. and i thought, this is -- there's not enough information out there but basic public policy in every day implead that people are watching, reading with listening to. that lead me down the path. why a provocative title? "kill the messenger." the media's role in the fate of the world. whey came to always -- realize through the research of my book and my disser station is that mass media and mas media messages can be used for good, and they can be used for not so god. they can be used in a constructive and destructive way. most of the book is about half the book about the more directive parts of mass media and how it has been used to really destructive ends. genocides, wars, and how that came about. but the book is dedicated to ways in which mass media
in the legislature, and also in the city trying to pass public policy that i thought was really in the public interest, and it was so hard. and it was so hard partly because most people didn't understand what we were even doing. didn't know when we were doing. i see my fellow commissioner joyce here, and she was with me through part of this. and i thought, this is -- there's not enough information out there but basic public policy in every day implead that people are watching, reading with...
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and part of the reason that the suburbs have been diversifying is the city schools are so bad that people are just getting out. so you do, you know, that's -- and part of the reason i wrote the book the way i did was to focus on within high school, one advertising agency, one neighborhood in kansas city and one chump was, you know, t -- one church was, you know, it's not really, i'm not saying we've got cannen better, but this is what happened at this school. and i picked those four things, school, neighborhood, workplace and church, because those are all things -- [inaudible] it's not so much a universal, i think there are universal principles in the book, like we've been talking about integration, but as far as like what's getting better or, you know, where is it getting better, i think it's far too nebulous to say really. >> so what's next? >> for me? >> yes. >> my wife wants me to do a book about gender. basically, a guy going into the world of -- especially with all this work life balance stuff that's been blowing up in the news. i enjoy a wonderful life of living and working at home
and part of the reason that the suburbs have been diversifying is the city schools are so bad that people are just getting out. so you do, you know, that's -- and part of the reason i wrote the book the way i did was to focus on within high school, one advertising agency, one neighborhood in kansas city and one chump was, you know, t -- one church was, you know, it's not really, i'm not saying we've got cannen better, but this is what happened at this school. and i picked those four things,...
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i have a chance to take the kids to near city. all of a sudden and see what side story and go to my friends restaurant. teachers wanted to be chaperones. [laughter] okay. by the time i think it was three students /1 teacher. [laughter] but then i heard it the principal wanted to come on the trip. the kids are like yes. where going to yorker price of less than. who was going with us? and a couple of others. who? dae want you to know the principal ones to go. no. not the principal. [laughter] we won't have any fund. [laughter] i said okay. this is the perfect opportunity to teach to a life lesson it is called making the best of a bad situation. [laughter] not that she is the bad situation. i use her. we started to chant. we sound like sheep. [laughter] i said she is going. we could tell her she cannot go and hurt her feelings. or we could write her a note then we have a friend. that it might take a while but to go back to question of i have to say it did come up 10 mockingbird but months later i am grading papers. a kid walks in. mr
i have a chance to take the kids to near city. all of a sudden and see what side story and go to my friends restaurant. teachers wanted to be chaperones. [laughter] okay. by the time i think it was three students /1 teacher. [laughter] but then i heard it the principal wanted to come on the trip. the kids are like yes. where going to yorker price of less than. who was going with us? and a couple of others. who? dae want you to know the principal ones to go. no. not the principal. [laughter] we...
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rao the city to the other radio in los angeles. like to point out that we're all graduates of the university of michigan law school. different years. larry is older than i am. and is a little bit younger, but the three of us all graduated from law school. now one of us has been invited back to campus to speak. go figure. three nationally syndicated talk show hosts with a lot of audience and none of us have been invited back. every five years i invited back to harvard to be the person that this town. that the chief of staff and director of the peace corps and communications director. duval patrick is the governor of massachusetts. grover norquist. it's like groundhog day every side -- every five years before us identify our class. we have the only two conservatives the gun and of harvard. the rest of us just throw things at us. it's always amusing commute the series is very good. come back in november bummer doing when it -- william henry harrison. it's a very short program. you don't want to miss that one. and such a presidential m
rao the city to the other radio in los angeles. like to point out that we're all graduates of the university of michigan law school. different years. larry is older than i am. and is a little bit younger, but the three of us all graduated from law school. now one of us has been invited back to campus to speak. go figure. three nationally syndicated talk show hosts with a lot of audience and none of us have been invited back. every five years i invited back to harvard to be the person that this...
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it is an honor to be yet politics and prose, such an institution to the city and a pleasure to be here. thank you everyone for coming on an august evening to hear me. i will try to be brief in my comments and i would rather have more of an exchange of ideas and hear your perspective so we can have a conversation about manufacturing and what our country should do to be competitive. the idea from the book came about when i was traveling and around the country, and i would see a successful manufacturer making blunders and steel and full-year suits and meat and food, and i would say i thought that all of our manufacturing had gone offshore. something didn't make sense. so i started to wonder what were people missing in the story? and it turns out that while a lot of manufacturing has gone offshore, so if you go into a store, the toys and apparel and all of that we still are a world leader when it comes to complex and advanced manufacturing. we make almost 80% of our steel, a tremendous amount of plaine and we are neck-and-neck in manufacturing with china. that is a staggering statistics. w
it is an honor to be yet politics and prose, such an institution to the city and a pleasure to be here. thank you everyone for coming on an august evening to hear me. i will try to be brief in my comments and i would rather have more of an exchange of ideas and hear your perspective so we can have a conversation about manufacturing and what our country should do to be competitive. the idea from the book came about when i was traveling and around the country, and i would see a successful...
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the church bells start to chime over the city. on the plane, there are three compartments. the first compartment search the president's staff and kennedy's secretaries are sitting there sobbing. just there jacqueline kennedy is sitting next to her husband but in the center compartment lyndon johnson sitting in the president's share there is an error of great -- we know what he is planning because he is making a list on little note pads on air force one with the heading air force one and he writes on one of them one staff and leadership and has to have a meeting with staff and a meeting with the cabinet immediately and the congressional leadership. we know about incidents that occurred during the flight. in one case just before it took off. lyndon johnson calls robert kennedy. these are two men who have hated each other all their lives. at the time kennedy is having lunch. he had a house in virginia called hickory hill. there is a long green lawn that slopes down. robert kennedy is sitting at a table with robert morgan who is the u.s. attorney for new york and two things hap
the church bells start to chime over the city. on the plane, there are three compartments. the first compartment search the president's staff and kennedy's secretaries are sitting there sobbing. just there jacqueline kennedy is sitting next to her husband but in the center compartment lyndon johnson sitting in the president's share there is an error of great -- we know what he is planning because he is making a list on little note pads on air force one with the heading air force one and he...
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microphone down other than pictures of her own children she managed to paying the city skyline portrait before the towers went up and white boards to plan 900 students schedules after the system principal tried to do it on a computer and a sign that said sometimes you have to take a leap and build your wings on the way down. the law bistro the case look-alike time capsule. newer winners flashing signs of cash. raiders have knowledge but one week ago with the superintendent anabel garza to a good guidance counselor side. what to we need to make this presentable? money. anabel garza went to a trip to ikea and went to pick up trash thinking the of the principles are not doing this right now. [laughter] acid did not have their younger sisters moving yen to take care of her daughter most night she was out talking to missionaries to have a school improvements facilitator in making mental list of who was missing books, desks and who was just missing. what is the drama? can i give you the short version the assistant principal asked concerning as science teachers largess. somebody suggested conf
microphone down other than pictures of her own children she managed to paying the city skyline portrait before the towers went up and white boards to plan 900 students schedules after the system principal tried to do it on a computer and a sign that said sometimes you have to take a leap and build your wings on the way down. the law bistro the case look-alike time capsule. newer winners flashing signs of cash. raiders have knowledge but one week ago with the superintendent anabel garza to a...
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he published the city and the pillar, the new york daily times would not review it. tha t it wash reviewed in the book review, however, orville prescott hated the book so much that he did not review it. however, he did review other books. vry m he reviewed chairman capote's. books, which he liked very much. even though he said he didn't hosexualit like the gay story element.h he loved the writing and wasdalh able to look past the homosexuality and talk about other things. buet gore vidal was treated very it sold badly but it was a national bestseller. it sold extremely well and was very successful. maybe christopher isherwood. in but otherwise, it was always alluded to in directly. i think more and more writersgon would say that i am a gay writer ben had been before. that major, american gay writert in major writer altogether, he would avoid that until heble a published his memoirs in 1972 he? >> there is a subplot of a , atleman who is 1972 was a greatn year. he got a lot of reviews, too. and after that, truman capote avoided the subject. he used the christopher ish
he published the city and the pillar, the new york daily times would not review it. tha t it wash reviewed in the book review, however, orville prescott hated the book so much that he did not review it. however, he did review other books. vry m he reviewed chairman capote's. books, which he liked very much. even though he said he didn't hosexualit like the gay story element.h he loved the writing and wasdalh able to look past the homosexuality and talk about other things. buet gore vidal was...
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i tell my law clerk that i have been in the city doing the jobs half of my natural life. the only reason is the ideals these are the things you believe them. i know that is not use a washington d.c. use say there is an angle their the useless peripheral debates to do our jobs the best we can to make it all work. you say you have the text but also the and written part to make it work. that is not be. [laughter] >> with the declaration and the bill of rights why it is worthy of the day shower celebration and knowledge seeing who was not part of the "we". they never had a democratic constitution may gain process. in 1776 as great as it was was, not put to a vote to. for us are against us and eight of the 13 states are lowered or eliminated compared to before then a year-long conversation people say there are problems and it is crowd source because of that conversation there is a practice five times a uses the same phrase that people. because it comes from the people. i think is captain it -- connected to the atf to make sure they are not cynical but you have to keep them on
i tell my law clerk that i have been in the city doing the jobs half of my natural life. the only reason is the ideals these are the things you believe them. i know that is not use a washington d.c. use say there is an angle their the useless peripheral debates to do our jobs the best we can to make it all work. you say you have the text but also the and written part to make it work. that is not be. [laughter] >> with the declaration and the bill of rights why it is worthy of the day...
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army soldiers inr the areas in and around the city of kandahar.other here was the tail of our own services fighting with each other instead of fighting and common purpose against theinter. enemy. and the stories go on. oth there weras internal fightingnti within the state department, within the u.s. agency for international development. in one other tail i've recounted some in the book, we have somete serious fighting between president obama's national was i security team and senior people at the state department over tht whole question of was it wise to try to broach potential peace talks with the taliban. try in wound up spending 18 months with fighting washington supposed to achieve the koy president on the country. >> who is summer? >> she is a young american woman, there she is on the bottom right, there, she haso extensive foreign developed in u experience and put her hand updm to try to rebuild the countryo and work for the u.s. agency for international development. that and she thought that she would be out there able to work withhe afghans, tried to pursue ove projects that would
army soldiers inr the areas in and around the city of kandahar.other here was the tail of our own services fighting with each other instead of fighting and common purpose against theinter. enemy. and the stories go on. oth there weras internal fightingnti within the state department, within the u.s. agency for international development. in one other tail i've recounted some in the book, we have somete serious fighting between president obama's national was i security team and senior people at...
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you would get a seat in the city council of new york if you got turn x% of the vote. if you got twice that amount, you got to see spirited a man named ben davis and jim davis won a seat of the city council of new york. you might be interested into aspects of benjamin davis, city council member. he was black, he was an african-american, and he was an enthusiastic public leader of the united states coming in and he was elected because of proportional representation. there is another returned to new york city, but we have had it. greece has it. so la cerise got only 3%. they had only 2728%, they came in with 2425%. but under greek law whatever party comes in first not only gets the percentage of the popular vote, but an extra 52 that is only reason one reason they got it by this rule, which is designed to favor the party that comes in first there is a strong, old, deeply rooted party, i think they get about 8% of the vote. one third of the voters in greek voted extreme left wing hostility to the capitalist' agrees. that is a sign of greece and a reaction to the change th
you would get a seat in the city council of new york if you got turn x% of the vote. if you got twice that amount, you got to see spirited a man named ben davis and jim davis won a seat of the city council of new york. you might be interested into aspects of benjamin davis, city council member. he was black, he was an african-american, and he was an enthusiastic public leader of the united states coming in and he was elected because of proportional representation. there is another returned to...
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i would start the story in the small village by lake victoria to the south and east of the major city in the province which was a very poor part of kenya. it's where the little tribe is basically center the second referred largest tribe in africa and the about where the obama's found themselves. >> host: on the president's paternal side where the grandparents? >> guest: he was born in the late 1800's and was in the first wave to be westernized they had come out and he learned english and became sort of inculcated into the british culture so he worked later as a chef and cut for many british military people and folks in nairobi and the mother came from another village in that area, and she did not -- he was a very difficult guy to live with. he had several why of this and when he moved to the area near where she grew up it was back to another home state of the clan around lake victoria. she had enough. she had a younger wife along with him and so she ran away. she left the family when barack obama, the president's father was a very little boy. >> david maraniss his grandparents died in
i would start the story in the small village by lake victoria to the south and east of the major city in the province which was a very poor part of kenya. it's where the little tribe is basically center the second referred largest tribe in africa and the about where the obama's found themselves. >> host: on the president's paternal side where the grandparents? >> guest: he was born in the late 1800's and was in the first wave to be westernized they had come out and he learned...
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select attitude through the book got a chance to take the kids to new york city. so we got in a bus and were having this trip. so all of a sudden it was not of a new york city paper were going to see west side story and go to friend's restaurant, pat's, 56 and eight, were frank's a notch to hang out. i'm going to take the case of this fancy italian restaurant and then by side story. and so people started coming in now, they want to be chaperones. [laughter] so of course, okay, by the time -- it figures three students to one teacher. but anyway, i got a message that ms. carroll wanted to come on the trip. the principal wanted to come on the trip. select from that india. they say you know, who's going that was fun, a that i want you to know, ms. carroll wants to go will so she's to teach you well called making the that that ms. carroll is a but me explain something to you. she's going. we can handle at one write her going to new york and i will have a friend of the principal's office. what do you think? it took a while, but they sort, to answer your -- this goes mon
select attitude through the book got a chance to take the kids to new york city. so we got in a bus and were having this trip. so all of a sudden it was not of a new york city paper were going to see west side story and go to friend's restaurant, pat's, 56 and eight, were frank's a notch to hang out. i'm going to take the case of this fancy italian restaurant and then by side story. and so people started coming in now, they want to be chaperones. [laughter] so of course, okay, by the time -- it...
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here as we travel the city to talk with local authors, visit or collections in to historic homes of writers. >> welcome, good to see you all. biarritz thurber house. in columbus, ohio. james thurber literature. but in a lot of houses in columbus, ohio. one of the houses he lived in one or two ohio state university from 1913 to 1917. james thurber is a great american author and is often with mark twain. he was a humo
here as we travel the city to talk with local authors, visit or collections in to historic homes of writers. >> welcome, good to see you all. biarritz thurber house. in columbus, ohio. james thurber literature. but in a lot of houses in columbus, ohio. one of the houses he lived in one or two ohio state university from 1913 to 1917. james thurber is a great american author and is often with mark twain. he was a humo
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by the way, in the next adjoining district, a pool guy was representing a part of the city. because it worked for party advantage. we allow for that to happen. there is is a way to get around that, too. there are other kinds of things that we can get into with questions about money. here's a story in "the new york times" was completely wrong in the headlines. it was about the fact that super pacs are pushing parties out of the way. and they were doing the funding and parties were not relevant. that is nonsense. did you ever look to see who is running this? okay, let me skip over that. let me go to what happens when you are in congress. you know, i have a former congressman here who has lived through it, as i have. here is the deal. there is a kumbaya moment. you when you're sworn in, there you are with dick gephardt and al gore, we are members of the same united states congress, that last for about 30 seconds. as soon as you are you're done, you vote on who will be speaker. you vote on what will be the party rules and what committees will have how many of his party in that p
by the way, in the next adjoining district, a pool guy was representing a part of the city. because it worked for party advantage. we allow for that to happen. there is is a way to get around that, too. there are other kinds of things that we can get into with questions about money. here's a story in "the new york times" was completely wrong in the headlines. it was about the fact that super pacs are pushing parties out of the way. and they were doing the funding and parties were not...
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and while you would not destroy all the cities if you have three or four of those going out until of these, three or four of those going off to a you might have airbursts in ground bursts. you do that because you want to grounders to cut countless thousands or hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive material which would be highly veto in the immediate area. the most intense radioactivity released his with in the first day, first couple of weeks. as you get further along its less dangerous, but you could have very easily the few hundred thousand fatalities in a country the size of israel. let's just put that in perspective to the united states. let's assume that they think they have enough accuracy to it west jerusalem and it does in it somewhere else. i might add if i was a palestinian, i would be a little nervous. i don't know if i have enough faith in the iranian rockets that they might not land in the wrong place. but if you have that and you have let's say one under 200,000 in each of those two cities among three or 400,000, we have about 45 times the population of zero. so
and while you would not destroy all the cities if you have three or four of those going out until of these, three or four of those going off to a you might have airbursts in ground bursts. you do that because you want to grounders to cut countless thousands or hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive material which would be highly veto in the immediate area. the most intense radioactivity released his with in the first day, first couple of weeks. as you get further along its less dangerous,...
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his book the aaa chronicle domestic terrorism trial that started in the city. estimate august 6, 2002, these three men who had known each other for a couple of years a local mosque got together and basically went out for coffee at the caribou cafe coffeehouse. this was ten months after the war in afghanistan had begun. at that time there were a lot of reports about the civilian casualties in the war and these three were very upset about that and the just started talking about what they could do to enact revenge or if they could do something about this and send a message of what they do. as a layman -- he threw out an idea about the hoover dam and christopher paul who was with him felt was a good idea that maybe there was something else. the third man who was an immigrant to columbus said he thought what a good thing to do would be to shoot up a shopping mall maybe that would send out the right kind of message. this meeting which was kind of a casual meeting again where they were just sort of tossing out ideas this became extremely significant to their cases. th
his book the aaa chronicle domestic terrorism trial that started in the city. estimate august 6, 2002, these three men who had known each other for a couple of years a local mosque got together and basically went out for coffee at the caribou cafe coffeehouse. this was ten months after the war in afghanistan had begun. at that time there were a lot of reports about the civilian casualties in the war and these three were very upset about that and the just started talking about what they could do...
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all we knew is that it was cheap we were creative types fleeing the justification of the city and the boom years start to pick up and capital looks for places to go. from sample of ciskei the need to tell you but i mentioned to with real-estate speculation, the effect is due to store and obscure native populations it is representational and physical. we were low rent but after we arrived in the real money came them. the art in america artist or writer to then joni mitchell then bob dylan and it was a tornado of speculation driving up the rent and then the old families to go south and cash in. an incredibly destabilizing force. so their arguments to be made. then isn't it like killing in self? but it was a dying town then they arrived in saved it was not ultimately a solution i would argue but thank you for your question. >> how would you envision northern new mexico if not based on revenue? let say it was the free hand bomb factory instead of tourism. what would it be like in your vision? >> a loss of lowe's national lab is there is the biggest employer decides wal-mart. and we have u
all we knew is that it was cheap we were creative types fleeing the justification of the city and the boom years start to pick up and capital looks for places to go. from sample of ciskei the need to tell you but i mentioned to with real-estate speculation, the effect is due to store and obscure native populations it is representational and physical. we were low rent but after we arrived in the real money came them. the art in america artist or writer to then joni mitchell then bob dylan and it...